Kaisen [he/him, comrade/them]

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  • Also, those ‘typical’ apartments were all built during the British colonial era on the crowded Hong Kong Island. Before Deng Xiaoping met with Margret Thatcher, the British government maintained the delusion that they were going to keep the island forever and only cede Kowloon, New Territories, Lantau Island and other surrounding areas (Which constitutes like 90% of HK’s territory) back to China, hence why there wasn’t any proper development outside of the island until the 2000s.

    Not to mention, I’ve lived in Hong Kong for the past few years, and I can tell you those kinds of conditions are far from ‘typical’. The HK SAR government have spent the past two decades building public housing and getting people to relocate from the British era squalors to these newer apartments. The HK government has already demolished a lot of these ‘typical’ apartments. Give it another few decades, and no one in HK will be living in 50 sq ft ‘apartments’.

    Newer apartment complexes built in places like Tseung Kwan O, Lohas Park, Lantau Island, and Tuen Mun are planned much better with parks, walkability, and community in mind. They are also much more spacious (relatively speaking). Like, holy fuck, Hong Kong Island is so uneccessarily car brained.